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From: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Discovering What Nature Wants
Keywords: Consciousness and Intentionality.  Knowledge and Wisdom.
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.175912.22181@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 89 17:59:12 GMT
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In article <74553@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes:
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>The challenge in selecting goals is in defining the word "Desirable".
>For the selection of desirable goals, one needs a Value System.
>(A Value System is a collection of preferences that transforms
>knowledge into wisdom.  Leadership begins with values.)
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>The next step beyond Artificial Intelligence is Artificial Wisdom.
>It is not enough to imbue our computers with knowledge.  We must
>also imbue them with values.

We clearly will give intelligent systems "values" in the sense of
methods of determining which high-level goals they wish to attempt to
acheive.  On the other hand, "wisdom" is an even fuzzier term than
intelligence and one that seems impossible to define in a non-circular
way -- a way that does not refer back to values.

>This is where Ethics meets AI.

And since, we haven't been able to agree on a system of Ethics despite
the millenia of philsophers' efforts.....

It seems to me that the values of an AI will reflect the values of the
AI's creator, and the degree to which that represents "wisdom" depends
on the degree to which you share his values.

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Brian Yamauchi				University of Rochester
yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu		Computer Science Department
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